BROKS Delegated Waste Collection in Pazardzhik to the Municipal Enterprise, Citizens in Alarm

Pazardzhik. On July 27 the contract for waste collection with the company “BROKS” for the urban area and for the villages Glavinitsa, Ivaylo and Mokryshe, and the waste bins owned by the company were returned. From August 1, waste collection will be carried out by the Municipal Enterprise “Cleanliness”, which will provide new containers for household waste. Contract concession №1859 was signed on December 15, 2003 for a term of 15 years and has been renewed with concessions.

The news caused unrest among residents of the villages due to the requirement that containers be placed at waste-collection-friendly locations, coordinated with the citizens, while for all other waste bags will be used, with a separate truck passing by. Until now each house had its own container, which raised questions about how elderly people will reach the common trash bin. There is also outrage among readers from Pazardzhik, who until now used personal small bins and will now use communal ones. Some citizens note that the bins are overflowing and not serviced in a timely manner. Still, the general impression is that during the summer repairs the bins are broadly full of household and construction waste in unusually high quantities.

In September 2024, Mayor Petar Kulenski announced that the Municipality would not renew the garbage cleaning contract with the company “Brok” Ltd and would create its own municipal enterprise. At that time the concession contract for Pazardzhik and for the villages Glavinitsa, Ivaylo and Mokryshe had expired and had been extended in six-month terms in a mode of urgency. According to explanations, the reason for the extensions is a dispute between the company “Omega” and a decision of the mayor from January 2024 to determine the concessionaire.

Source: Zname.info